Cask-repairing device.



i PATENTEDAPR.17,1906.

J. MAJoRos. CASK REPAIRING DEVI/GE.

APPLICATION }`ILED MAR.27, 1905.

JOHN MAJ OROS,

OF HAMILTON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR OF'ONE-HALF TO DANIEL SOHROEDER, OFHAMILTON, OHIO.

oAs'K-REPAIRING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 17, 1906.

Application filed March 27,1905. Serial No, 252.133.

To all whom t may concern,.-

Be it -known that I, JOHN MAJoRos, a citi- Zen of the United States,residing at Hamilton, Butler county, Ohio, (post-office address No. 107Walnut street, Hamilton, Ohio have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Cask-Repairing Devices, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention, relating to a device for repairing damaged casks, willbe readily understood from the following description, taken inconnection with the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is alongitudinal section of a portion of the stave of a cask having appliedto it my improved repairing device. Fig. 2 is a transverse section ofthe same. y

The very large casks usually employed in the brewers cellars are oftenin the neighborhood of ten feet in diameter and length and are closelystored in tiers, filling the cellar with substantial compactness.Occasionally a stave of such a cask will be found to have becomepartially broken at the bilge, the defect probably having existed fromthe time the stave was originally bent. VThe result of this defect isthat the stave bulges outwardly beyond its two side neighbors, thusopening local joints and permitting leakage to occur at this place aswell as possibly through the break itself. Owing to the closecompactness of the casks in the cellar, it is practically impossible toremove the cask for repairs, and the driving ofhoops, if it could beeffected, would often be without avail in curing the defect referred to.It has therefore been customary to allow such casks to rot in thecellar. By means of my improvement I draw the bulging stave back toplace and find it practipable to cure all such defects as I havementioned.

Inthe drawings, l indicates the center or bilgd portion of a stave whichis to be assui'ned as damaged and bulged unduly outwardly; 2, a holebored through the stave at about its center of width and at ,thelocation of the defect 3 aplatelaid against the outside of the damagedportion of the stave, preferably conformed to the normal shape of asound stave; 4, a bolt passed through the hole 2 and screwed into theplate; 5, an arch with its ends disposed against the inner surface ofthe stave and straddling the defective portion, the ends preferablyarranged to conform to the normal inner surface of a sound stave, thebolt 4 passing through the crown of the arch; 6, a nut screwed on thebolt against the crown of the archl and serving to draw the bilge of thestave inwardly and tend to straighten the stave; 7, packing,.as of yarn,disposed around the bolt at the inner surface of the stave andpreferably in a suitable counterbore at the inner end of hole 2; 8, awasher disposed against this packing, 9, a nut upon the bolt seatingagainst the washer and intended to compact the packing around the boltand against the stave.

In using this device a workman enters the damaged cask and bores thehole 2 through the defective stave at the wound. He then screws the bolt`into the plate 3 while the latter is held in position by anotherworkman. A little difficulty may be sometimes experienced in locatingand holding the plate 3, owing to the inaccessibility of the location;but a rolling of the cask will in all probability permit the defect tobe gotten at. The workman within the cask applies the arch and screws upthe nut, thus bending the stave back to proper position or sufficientlyso to cure any leakage. He then applies thepacking and screws up nut 9.

I claim as my invention-d 1. In a cask-repairing device, the combinationof an exterior plate formed of a single iece of metal, adapted to belaterally included within the width of a stave, an interior memberhaving two feet conformed to the normal shape of the inner surface of astave, separated from each other a distance considerably greater thanthe length of the exterior plate, a bolt adapted to pass through astave, engaging the plate at the center and passing through the interiormember at the center, and a nut on the bolt engaging said member fordrawing the plate and member toward each other and forcing a stave intoits normal position.

2. In a cask-repairing device, the combination of an exterior plateformed of a single piece of metal conformed to the normal shape of thestave and adapted to be laterally included within the width of a stave,an interior member having two feet conformed to the normal shape of theinner surface of a stave, separated from each other a distanceconsiderably greater than the length of the exterior plate, a boltadapted to pass through IOO other a distance considerably greater thanthe length of the exterior plate, a bolt adapted to pass through astave, engaging the plate at the center and passing through the interiormember at the centerJ and a nut on the bolt engaging said member fordrawing the plate and member toward each other and forcing a stave intoits normal position.

JOHN MAJ CROS. Witnesses:

E. R. SHIPLEY, M. S. BELDEN.

